Are we destroying the planet to save it?

The rhetoric on global warming is heating up in the run up to the Glasgow climate summit.

We are told almost daily that renewables will save the planet, but several years ago numerous scientific studies stated that millions of birds and bats are killed annually by wind turbine blades.

Now my attention has been drawn to a study by Christian Voigt published in January.

He estimates that 1.2 trillion insects are killed by German onshore wind turbines annually.

The indirect effect of this will be fewer insects for birds and bats to eat and reduced pollination of plants.

It seems we have to destroy the planet to save the planet.

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Heat pumps are being hailed as “saving the planet”.

Only if you have a spare £7000 to £30,000.

Heat pumps work at a lower temperature than gas boilers and thus need larger radiators and improved insulation thus increasing the cost.

I have just replaced my gas boiler for £3000 so before

2035 when new gas boilers are scheduled to be banned people should do the same.

Meanwhile other countries are building coal-fired plants, extracting coal, gas and oil and driving 1.4 billion petrol/ diesel vehicles.

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UK and Scottish politicians would never get a job in the private sector at a salary anything like they receive.

Note I did not say “earned”.

The 129 MSPs in the Scottish parliament range from £64,470 to £157,861. The 650 MPs range from £81,932 to £161,866.

There are 800 members of the House of Lords.

Politicians’ most expensive and pointless exercise is Net Zero. This will cost UK taxpayers trillions of pounds.

Other countries are too busy building more coal-fired plants and harvesting oil, gas and coal to bother about their emissions.

To pay for UK’s Net Zero there should be a Net Zero tax of 20 per cent on all earnings and expenses over £64,000.

Oh dear, that would mean that our 1579 politicians would have to pay towards the green mess they landed us in.

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